Amelia Wray
Principal
Amelia has been acting and performing since she was 7 years old; she trained with a local youth theatre before starting her professional career age 15 when she made her TV debut in ITV’s Emmerdale.
Since then alongside her acting career Amelia has held drama classes for children and ran primary school workshops around Cheshire and Nationwide.
Alongside working with children, Amelia has exstensive experience working with young adults and vunerable people.
During the pandemic Amelia has worked improving the wellbeing and mental health of those affected by Covid19, this has enabled Amelia to train in mental health awareness, something Amelia is very passionate about and wants to improve in our next generation using the power of drama.
Amelia's knowledge of the industry and passion for production is shared with our students each week. Amelia is also experienced in talent managment and has a passion for supporting upcoming talent take the next step.
Amelia has a level 3 in Education and Training,
Mental health awareness
Safeguarding,
Prevent and GDPR training.
Full Paediatric First Aid Training.
Enhanced DBS certificate.
Richard Oliver
Artistic Director
Richard trained at Guildhall School Of Music and Drama and The Oxford School Of Drama and has directed over 180 plays in the last 20 years, covering Shakespeare, musicals, modern plays and new writing, including several 4 & 5 star shows at Edinburgh Fringe as well as being in the Guinness book of records for most Shakespeare performed in one evening. In his spare time he enjoys boxing & skateboarding.
As an actor he continues to work in film, video game, tv, commercial, audio drama and theatre and won best actor at the NYC Indie Film Awards.
Most recently he appeared in the new play Icing Sugar at The Liverpool Everyman to open their return from lockdown as well as returning to Coronation Street as the reporter. Richard has acted across from many famous actors like Sylvester McCoy (Dr Who, The Hobbit) Robert Picardo (Star Trek) Laura Cayouette (Django Unchained) Tamsin Greig, Paul McGann, Brian Blessed, Tuppence Middleton amongst others.
Richards passion is the quest to discover what makes a great actor great and through his continual practice and study of acting practitioners, he enjoys sharing this knowledge in a practical way in a workshop environment.
Enhanced DBS certificate.
